{"id":142,"date":"2004-05-13T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/13\/london_bulletin.html"},"modified":"2012-07-16T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:20:35","slug":"london_bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/13\/london_bulletin.html","title":{"rendered":"London Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/london-underground.blogspot.com\/\">London Underground Blog<\/A> every week or so, which always provides fascinating stories of travel on the Tube, as well as links to other interest transit-related blogs.  You know, if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing.  Anyway, from there, I found out about Geoff&#8217;s ongoing <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/tubechallenge\/index.htm\">quest<\/A> to visit every one of the Underground&#8217;s 275 stations in the shortest time.  He and his team <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/tubechallenge\/tube7.htm\">did just that<\/A> last week, breaking the 19-hour barrier for the first time.  Their story is a fun read, though they naturally don&#8217;t give away any trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to Geoff&#8217;s other pages, I checked in on his experiment to ask friends and strangers for 50p each in order to buy an iPod.  I PayPal&#8217;d him 50p (or 91 cents, with today&#8217;s ever more depressing exchange rate), and Aimee and I became <a title=\"Geofftech - 50 pence - Contributors 401 to 425\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/50pence\/401to425.htm\">contributor number 420<\/a>  out of 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the London Underground Blog every week or so, which always provides fascinating stories of travel on the Tube, as well as links to other interest transit-related blogs. You know, if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing. Anyway, from there, I found out about Geoff&#8217;s ongoing quest to visit every one of the Underground&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noted","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}